Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
1508 Avsnitt
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Ai Weiwei: Imprisoned for art
Publicerades: 2025-06-30 -
Italian happiness trains
Publicerades: 2025-06-27 -
The opening of the Medellin Metro
Publicerades: 2025-06-26 -
The funeral train for Robert Kennedy
Publicerades: 2025-06-25 -
The Czech Freedom Train
Publicerades: 2025-06-24 -
The Gratitude Train: France thanks America
Publicerades: 2025-06-23 -
Making Jaws
Publicerades: 2025-06-20 -
The signing of the Treaty of Versailles
Publicerades: 2025-06-19 -
Civil rights swim-in
Publicerades: 2025-06-18 -
Charleston church shooting
Publicerades: 2025-06-17 -
'Tripperburgen' the sexual health clinics that detained women
Publicerades: 2025-06-16 -
The Schengen Agreement
Publicerades: 2025-06-13 -
Ronald Reagan’s ‘Tear down this wall’ speech
Publicerades: 2025-06-12 -
Lonesome George: The celebrity tortoise
Publicerades: 2025-06-11 -
The woman born in a prisoner of war camp
Publicerades: 2025-06-10 -
World War Two’s Rome escape line
Publicerades: 2025-06-09 -
Usonia: Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘utopian’ town
Publicerades: 2025-06-06 -
The discovery of the first exoplanets
Publicerades: 2025-06-05 -
Favela life: The diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
Publicerades: 2025-06-04 -
The world’s largest model train set
Publicerades: 2025-06-03
Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by the past. We take you to the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all over the world, to examine wars, coups, scientific discoveries, cultural moments and much more. Recent episodes explore everything from the death of Adolf Hitler, the first spacewalk and the making of the movie Jaws, to celebrity tortoise Lonesome George, the Kobe earthquake and the invention of superglue. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: Eva Peron – Argentina’s Evita; President Ronald Reagan and his famous ‘tear down this wall’ speech; Thomas Keneally on why he wrote Schindler’s List; and Jacques Derrida, France’s ‘rock star’ philosopher. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the civil rights swimming protest; the disastrous D-Day rehearsal ; and the death of one of the world’s oldest languages.
